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Mercnbeth -> RE: Poll: Health-care reform more popular after passage than before (3/24/2010 8:34:38 AM)
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I take it this is the one poll and source that's 100% accurate, unbiased, not agenda based - determined by your agreement to it.
Who is the target audience? Who are you trying to convince the Bill solves anything except providing another corporate welfare program for the health care and services industry?
There may be no denied coverage but there is also no limit to what any insurance company can charge for coverage under those conditions.
Immediately there is a huge burden on health equipment with an income tax surcharge of between 10 and 30 percent for device companies. Who do you think this cost will be passed onto to be paid? Who in their right mind will do R&D in the US under that tax burden? A new tax burden, that has to be implemented into a US model full of unknowns versus a European or Asian models, both with established government health care take overs. Appreciating that's the goal, but until it occurs walking the white line between government ownership of all things health related and that this bill does will put the burden on the user and the tax payer.
A plan that; "pays for itself"; yet had to include another government take over - the student loan industry to pay for it. No longer do the students, now allowed to be a child until 26, get it at 'cost'; they'll be paying 6% on government funds coasting 2%. Profits are bad for industry, a government take over generating profits to support this bill is positive? Rationalization at its finest.
All planned and budgeted by the CBO who can only assume the numbers supplied and not vet them. What's it going to cost and who's going to pay for it? Or do you think all of a sudden small and large businesses will not look for ways to avoid paying any tax surcharge and/or reduce the employee force instead of being subject to higher costs for benefits, and government mandated coverage. No penalty or fee that I've seen from either side of the aisle has been more than cost of coverage required; putting the onus on the individual.
You think any of that was pointed out by the pollsters even if those polled could understand it? Most of the interviews I've seen from the 'man in the street' think this is coming to them "free". The entitled getting another entitlement.
This didn't change the problem with health care, it only relocated the problem and added another level; an 'efficient' government run one at that. The bill creates close to 100 new government bureaucracies, boards, commissions and programs with the power together to tell doctors and hospitals what health care they can and should provide, what are supposedly the "best practices" for treating specific illnesses and conditions, what works in health care and what doesn't through the concept of "comparative effectiveness," even who should and shouldn't receive what health care through the concept of "cost effectiveness."
Honestly do you believe anyone, individual or business, will be paying less for same or more health care benefits four years from now?
But this poll is provided as proof that the people are behind it. The consequences haven't been felt yet. With a bigger plurality they were behind 'CHANGE!' last January. I expect a similar result from a much lower base in this case, since the source expected to deliver on the expectation is the same. Your poll does point to one fact - no as many people were fooled this time around. Looks like some people learned from the last time. They must have fallen through the cracks of the US indoctrination (aka education) system.
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